Lot 20521 – 1903 Oct 18) Original photo of the Italian radio-telegraphic station in Peking

1903 (Oct 18) Original photo of the Italian radio-telegraphic station in the Italian legation in Peking, “vista del albero portafili” (view of the “tree” of wires). The photo is dated on reverse in manuscript on the day this station in Peking was opened; with a range of 250 km., the first tests started four days before (Oct. 14) by communicating with the “Vettor Pisani” battleship in Taku, in order to verify the proper functioning before the opening; in 1904 another station was opened in Tientsin. The photographic testimony of the first radio-telegraphic station in China, probably unique.